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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Ignorant me. After quite sometime wondering what cinco de mayo could be, finally i learnt the meaning today (tonight, to be precise) from a cartoon my kids were watching just a moment ago: Handy Manny. If you watch the playhouse disney channel, you'd know what that is. :-).
So back to cinco de mayo, Handy manny explained that cinco means fifth and mayo means the month of may. So, cinco de mayo refers to the celebration celebrated by the mexican people on the 5th of may every year. It's a family occasion. hmm....and here's a piece of information i obtained from wikipedia about this celebration:

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico. The holiday commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely defeat of French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.

The outnumbered Mexicans defeated a much better-equipped French army that had known no defeat for almost 50 years.However, Cinco de Mayo is not "an obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, but rather a holiday that can be observed voluntarily.

While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. However, a common misconception in the United States is that Cinco de Mayo is Mexico's Independence Day,which actually is September 16 (dieciséis de septiembre in Spanish),the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.

4 comments:

  1. Congratulacion de la cinco de Mayo Senorita

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  2. hello tiee... coming by here to wish u 'HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY"!! Have a wonderful time!

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